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Clara by Janice Galloway 9780099750512
Booksplease Price: £14.54'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on Sunday Celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and... -
Collected Stories by Janice Galloway
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most... -
Clara by Janice Galloway 9780743238533
Booksplease Price: £20.50Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780743238533Author Janice GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)... -
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each... -
Where You Find It by Janice Galloway 9780099453116
Booksplease Price: £25.20In her latest collection of stories, Janice Galloway turns her unflinching gaze on relationships: the struggle to love against the odds, the overpowering yearning to communicate, and the... -
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing Janice Galloway 9781628976458
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976458Author Janice GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher... -
All Made Up by Janice Galloway 9781847083272
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In the second volume of her memoirs, the prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary... -
Where You Find It: Stories by Janice Galloway 9781416578420
Booksplease Price: £13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416578420Author Janice GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Gillian Sargent
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £6.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841270Author Gillian SargentFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish... -
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Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington 9780749397470 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.99A riotous urban picaresque, richly laced with black humour, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marks a milestone in Scottish literature. 'This tale of a week in the life of Tam Clay, Gorbals... -
Possible Worlds Theory and Readers' Emotional Responses to Literature Megan Mansworth 9781350428935
Booksplease Price: £96.29This book develops a cognitive stylistic exploration of readers' emotional experiences of literature. Adopting Possible Worlds Theory as a framework, the volume constructs a stylistic analysis of... -
Hieroglyphics And Other Stories Anne Donovan 9781841955193
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A beautiful collection - charming, witty and touching - these stories give voice to a variety of different characters: from the little girl who wants to look 'subtle' for her father's funeral, a... -
Swing Hammer Swing! by Jeff Torrington
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his... -
The Complete Short Stories Muriel Spark 9781786890016
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to... -
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Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to... -
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he... -
Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman 9781916751491
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing... -
Cal by Bernard MacLaverty 9780099767114
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49For Cal, some of the choices are devastatingly simple...He can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero 9780367665722
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue... -
Dashboard Elvis is Dead: The epic, extraordinary new novel from one of Scotland's most exceptional novelists by David F. Ross
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician's resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary... -
Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A... -
The Contemporary British Novel by James Acheson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd,... -
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Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland by Deborah Orr 9781474611466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.29THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980 by James Acheson 9781403974303
Booksplease Price: £46.28Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980 by James Acheson 9781403974297
Booksplease Price: £46.28Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including... -
This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History by Esther Rutter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A compelling literary journey through the social history of wool in the British Isles' Karen Lloyd, author of The Gathering Tide Travel the length of the British Isles with Esther Rutter, as she... -
Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delphine de Vigan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In this moving autobiographical novel, the narrator's mother, Lucile, raises her two daughters largely alone. A former child model from a large Bohemian family, Lucile is younger and more glamorous... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781906817060
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781910021446
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
As Others See Us: Personal Views on the Life and Work of Robert Burns by Tricia Malley 9781906817527
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.06As Others See Us is based on a new photographic exhibition from Tricia Malley and Ross Gillespie, who together form the renowned partnership broad daylight. It forms part of Homecoming 2009,... -
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction PrizeFor 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is... -
Memory and Straw by Angus Peter Campbell 9781912147083
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.18A face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She's a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence. He's good at his job. Scarily good. He's researching human features to... -
Memory and Straw by Angus Peter Campbell 9781912147410
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67WINNER OF THE 2017 SALTIRE SOCIETY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A face is nothing without its history. Gavin and Emma live in Manhattan. She's a musician. He works in Artificial Intelligence... -
Scottish Literature by Gerard Carruthers
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness. The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature,... -
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: From the author of TikTok phenomenon BUNNY by Mona Awad
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY 'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to... -
Choke Chain by Jason Donald 9780099527060
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83'An exceptional debut' IndependentAlex is twelve, and he lives with his younger brother and his parents in a dirt-poor white neighbourhood in 1980s South Africa. He and Kevin are trying to grow up,... -
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
Booksplease Price: £20.70LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope and of...